06-29-2020, 08:50 PM
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A Fiddler Crab
Join Date: Jan 2007
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NYTimes is reporting that the intel on Russian bounties was in the President’s Daily Briefing on February 27th and disseminated to the wider global intelligence community on May 5th.
The White House is still maintaining the President was not “personally briefed” on the matter, will this ultimately lead to Trump’s public admission he does not read the PDBs? Yes. Will Republicans then defend this behavior? Also yes.
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06-29-2020, 10:39 PM
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#544
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Originally Posted by Faust
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That story doesn't even mention that those ETFs include junk bonds, which is just one more little snippet of crazy in the story of the Fed over the last several years.
The Fed is holding the American economy together with pieces of string while pumping vast amounts of cash into corporate pockets. It's mind blowing, and it's a death cycle for the dollar standard. And it's not just creating vast amounts in the US market, but the credit swaps that saved the dollar from deflation a couple of months back are producing vast amounts in the global supply when multiplied through fractional reserves.
The dollar standard may not crash right away, but the implications of this mess will extend well into the future regardless of who wins in November.
Average Americans have no idea how badly they're getting ####ed right now either, but the IBs and hedge funds know the deal, so they're not going to hold onto what are becoming bad investments in the real economy when they can cut those losses and profiteer on the chaos.
The stock market is a mirage. Tax breaks that allowed buybacks, the repo market in the fall, now the stimulus packages and Fed buying corporate debt keep the markets headed up even as projected EPS is in a nosedive. Reality and the market parted ways a while ago, and the Fed's current action is just a part of the story.
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06-29-2020, 11:00 PM
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#545
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Izzle
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And yet Trump repeatedly pushed re-instating Russia to the G7, pulling America out of Europe, gifting Syria to the Russians along with a fully complete and stocked military base/airfield, and burning America's Kurdish allies during the same period.
He is directly aiding and abetting enemies of the US who are actively running a shadow war against it. Either his administration is so grossly incompetent that no one passed the information to him or he knew in which case hes pretty much a traitor. He seems to want us to believe he didn't know, and that looks like it's failing. Soon he'll be blaming Obama, fake news, or throwing someone under the bus. Hopefully Barr or Pompeo go under this time.
GOP Senators and representatives are doubling down on sticking their heads sand by boycotting the Intel briefings on the Russian bounties. Even they can't deal with doing the mental gymnastics to defend Trump's traitorous actions so they're going to be deliberately ignorant.
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-...SOIR92YsKt2qmQ
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06-29-2020, 11:07 PM
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#546
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damn onions
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I really, really, really hope one day Trump ends up in jail. Not too many more people deserve it more in world quite frankly. It would at least show the world that justice is not a vanished concept in the United States.
What an absolute and unmitigated disaster that country is.
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06-29-2020, 11:19 PM
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#547
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Apparently Trump and Putin have been talking a lot in the last little bit. Five calls over the last three weeks.
Trump next week: "I talked to Putin, he says he had nothing to do with the bounties on our soldiers. I believe him"
https://www.rferl.org/a/russsia-us-t.../30573019.html
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06-29-2020, 11:21 PM
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#548
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damn onions
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those calls are probably more like lining up an exit strategy in November in event of election loss.
Like, a literal escape plan.
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06-29-2020, 11:38 PM
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#549
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
those calls are probably more like lining up an exit strategy in November in event of election loss.
Like, a literal escape plan.
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yep, my guess is his last official trip is to Moscow, followed by slipping his handlers at the Red Square McDicks and claiming asylum
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06-30-2020, 06:23 AM
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#550
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The NY Times releases info that gets backed by other sources.
The whitehouse and GOP scramble to lie.
The Times relates some more information to show the lies for what they are...
Let’s see what new lies the administration and GOP Tell today shall we....
Generally not a conspiracy theorist but it seems more and more that Putin has the entire GOP in his control.
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
yep, my guess is his last official trip is to Moscow, followed by slipping his handlers at the Red Square McDicks and claiming asylum
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Putin is going to laugh in his face and hang him out to dry.
Last edited by ernie; 06-30-2020 at 06:26 AM.
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06-30-2020, 07:44 AM
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#551
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Oh my god...Europe but with no Americans!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...t-excludes-us/
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The EU has revealed a list of 14 countries whose citizens will be allowed to visit the bloc from July 1, but the US, China and Brazil have been left off.
The list includes Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco and South Korea.
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06-30-2020, 07:49 AM
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#552
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ernie
Putin is going to laugh in his face and hang him out to dry.
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No way. Think about the information that guy has.
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06-30-2020, 07:57 AM
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#553
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
yep, my guess is his last official trip is to Moscow, followed by slipping his handlers at the Red Square McDicks and claiming asylum
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Can they do anything to stop that? He’s clearly a security risk to the country.
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06-30-2020, 08:02 AM
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#554
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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
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Heaven!
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06-30-2020, 08:03 AM
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#555
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The american ruble might get devalued soon!
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06-30-2020, 08:11 AM
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#556
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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
No way. Think about the information that guy has.
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He’s already told Putin everything and will continue to do so. I doubt he’ll have anything else when the time comes.
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06-30-2020, 08:12 AM
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#557
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ernie
He’s already told Putin everything and will continue to do so. I doubt he’ll have anything else when the time comes.
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Except for a few in person meetings, all of that stuff is tracked.
Free flowing information on their turf is a scary thought.
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06-30-2020, 08:26 AM
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#558
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Except for a few in person meetings, all of that stuff is tracked.
Free flowing information on their turf is a scary thought.
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Not when you have an army of willing GOP senators to goto to Russia and pass messages to Putin for you. Remember when a bunch went to Moscow during Independence day?
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...scow-on-july-4
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06-30-2020, 10:15 AM
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#559
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Wucka Wocka Wacka
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: East of the Rockies, West of the Rest
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I have a friend from Russia who is in the banking and politics space. He told me there is also a lot of very high ranking American evangelicals meeting with Russian leadership. I think there is a whole other channel between the WH and Moscow.
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06-30-2020, 10:30 AM
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#560
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fozzie_DeBear
I have a friend from Russia who is in the banking and politics space. He told me there is also a lot of very high ranking American evangelicals meeting with Russian leadership. I think there is a whole other channel between the WH and Moscow.
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Well the NRA one got shut down so they needed another conduit and Evangelical “Christians” seems the next logical choice.
It’s time the Democrats started to work really hard at tying the rest of the GOP leadership as key cogs in this mess. Otherwise the GOP will just force Trump out and run someone else...a professional someone else and the polls will start to swing back in a hurry.
Last edited by ernie; 06-30-2020 at 10:32 AM.
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